1. Dedication 7 
2. Preface 12 
3. Methods of field and laboratory work 15 
4. Early Man in Northern China 20 
5. The geographical setting of the Proto-Chinese 32 
6. Stone implements of Northern China 44 
7. Black pottery and eggshell 62 
8. The Ch’i Chia P'ing pottery 78 
9. The Lo Han T’ang site 84 
10. The Ma Chia Yao site 88 
11. Yang Shao sites of S. Kansu 99 
12. Finds of the Pan Shan hills 104 
13. Sites in Shensi and Shansi 140 
14. The Sha Kuo T’un cave deposit 149 
15. Painted pottery from the dwelling-site of Chu Chia Chai 152 
16. The Ma Chang stage 159 
17. The Hui Tsui site 167 
18. Hsin Tien grave fields 173 
19. The Ssu Wa Shan sites 179 
20. The Ch’ia Yao — Hsia Hsi Ho sites 185 
21. The Sha Ching sites 197 
22. The continuity of Kansu ceramic art 215 
23. Semilunar and rectangular knives 223 
24. Vessels with pointed bottom 229 
25. The prehistory of the Li tripod 232 
26. Zoomorphic and Anthropomorphic representations 239 
27. Prehistoric burial customs 244 
28. Cryptic magic 252 
29. The Yang Shao culture compared with historical China 255 
30. The Far Eastern provinces of painted pottery 270 
31. A tentative chronology 291 
Examination of bronze specimens 299 

List of text figures 300.